14 April 10: At a public hearing on Climate Change in Brussels, Belgium, held on 14 April 2010, Yvo de Boer, UNFCCC Executive Secretary, stated that the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference constituted an important event because it: raised the profile of climate change policy to the highest political level; significantly advanced the negotiations on the infrastructure needed for well-functioning, global climate change cooperation, including improvements to the Kyoto Protocol Clean Development Mechanism (CDM); and produced the Copenhagen Accord, "a clear letter of political intent to constrain carbon and respond to climate change, both in the short and in the long term."
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7 April 2010: The latest issue of the Traditional Knowledge Bulletin, published by the Traditional Knowledge Initiative of the UN University-Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU IAS), features an article that analyzes of the outcome of the 15th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP 15) and the potential priorities for indigenous peoples in 2010.
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German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel will open this informal meeting, which she announced during the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. Around 45 countries are expected to participate in the Dialogue.
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9 April 2010: Heads of Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) met on 9 April 2010, at European Investment Bank (EIB) headquarters in Luxembourg, to discuss plans to support a sustainable global recovery and climate finance. Participants at the meeting noted that the Copenhagen Accord offers an opportunity to take action to finance measures to combat climate change.
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The European Forestry Commission is one of six Regional Forestry Commissions established by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to provide a policy and technical forum for countries to discuss and address forest-related issues on a regional basis. The main topics for discussion during this session will be: climate change and forests; forests and energy; forests and water; and regional cooperation on forests.
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March 2010: The Energy Technology Systems Analysis Programme (ETSAP), an implementing agreement of the International Energy Agency (IEA), and in cooperation with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), has posted presentations and other resources from its 18-23 January 2010 workshop, which took place in New Delhi, India.
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1 April 2010: The implementation of UN-REDD activities in Indonesia was officially launched at the UN-REDD Inception Workshop, held from 30-31 March 2010, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Representatives of various ministries, provincial governments, and international and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) discussed reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries (REDD) in Indonesia and the UN Programme's activities.
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This meeting of the Enforcement branch of the UNFCCC Compliance Committee will consider a question of implementation regarding Bulgaria.
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The workshop targeting Asian Least Developed Countries (LDCs), aims to: provide technical support to LDC teams in the design of an implementation strategy for the National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPAs); build capacity of these teams in the preparation and submission of project documents to the GEF under the LDCF; and provide technical support to those LDC parties that are still preparing their NAPAs.
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